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“Lying, Plato says explicity, is to be a prerogative of the government, just as giving medicine is of physicians.”

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Niccolo Machiavelli

የማይነጋ ህልም ሳልምየማይድን በሽታ ሳክምየማያድግ ችግኝ ሳርምየሰው ሂወት ስከረክምእኔ ለእኔ ኖሬ አላቅም::

ፀጋይ ገ መድህን

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

Thomas Hobbes

“The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.”

Arthur Koestler

A prince, therefore, being compelled knowingly to adopt the beast, ought to choose the fox and the lion, because the lion cannot defend himself against snares and the fox cannot defend himself against wolves. Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves